Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 731 499 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.27% 14.45% 9.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.66% 51.66% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 439 385 357
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,472 966 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 20.67% 27.97% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 934 712 824
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% -3.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,375 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 192 £60,000 +9.09% 67
Essex +1 176 £40,000 +14.29% 41
Cambridgeshire -5 148 £55,000 +44.74% 52
Suffolk +27 102 £49,000 -2.00% 12
Norfolk +3 83 £55,000 +48.65% 23
Bedfordshire -15 28 £37,500 -29.25% 24
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 101 (13.82%) SharePoint
2 51 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.05%) WordPress
4 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Confluence
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
1 7 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 185 (25.31%) Microsoft 365
2 119 (16.28%) Power Platform
3 110 (15.05%) Azure AI
3 110 (15.05%) Entra ID
4 87 (11.90%) AWS
5 80 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (7.11%) OneDrive
7 38 (5.20%) PowerApps
8 36 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 33 (4.51%) Azure Logic Apps
10 31 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (4.10%) GitHub
12 25 (3.42%) GCP
13 20 (2.74%) SaaS
14 19 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.03%) Firewall
2 51 (6.98%) DNS
3 47 (6.43%) VPN
4 35 (4.79%) DHCP
5 27 (3.69%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.19%) Internet
7 14 (1.92%) WAN
8 13 (1.78%) Wireless
9 11 (1.50%) VoIP
10 10 (1.37%) LAN
11 9 (1.23%) MQTT
11 9 (1.23%) VLAN
12 7 (0.96%) Broadband
12 7 (0.96%) Network Security
13 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.41%) DMZ
14 3 (0.41%) SSL
14 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.41%) WLAN
15 2 (0.27%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (14.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 103 (14.09%) Power BI
3 59 (8.07%) MongoDB
3 59 (8.07%) Tableau
4 36 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 30 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.96%) MySQL
10 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.82%) Looker
10 6 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.41%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.15%) Git
2 12 (1.64%) JIRA
3 6 (0.82%) MLflow
4 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Selenium
5 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) git-flow
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.14%) ERwin
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 365 (49.93%) Social Skills
2 82 (11.22%) Finance
3 33 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (2.87%) Marketing
5 20 (2.74%) Law
6 15 (2.05%) Legal
7 13 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (1.78%) Public Sector
8 12 (1.64%) Retail
9 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Advertising
11 6 (0.82%) Banking
11 6 (0.82%) Multimedia
12 5 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 154 (21.07%) Developer
2 151 (20.66%) Analyst
3 114 (15.60%) Junior
4 109 (14.91%) Junior Analyst
5 93 (12.72%) IT Support
6 85 (11.63%) .NET Developer
7 71 (9.71%) Senior
8 58 (7.93%) Security Analyst
9 56 (7.66%) Ethical Hacker
10 54 (7.39%) Data Analyst
11 52 (7.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 52 (7.11%) Junior Data Analyst
11 52 (7.11%) Junior Security Analyst
12 50 (6.84%) IT Engineer
13 48 (6.57%) Support Engineer
14 36 (4.92%) IT Support Engineer
15 35 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (4.65%) Graduate
17 32 (4.38%) Lead
18 31 (4.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (16.83%) .NET
2 103 (14.09%) .NET Core
3 81 (11.08%) ASP.NET
4 80 (10.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 76 (10.40%) CSS
6 67 (9.17%) HTML
7 50 (6.84%) RESTful
8 38 (5.20%) React
9 35 (4.79%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.38%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.24%) Node.js
12 29 (3.97%) Blazor
13 23 (3.15%) AngularJS
14 22 (3.01%) HTML5 Canvas
14 22 (3.01%) JSON
15 21 (2.87%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (2.87%) Vue
16 20 (2.74%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (2.60%) SPFx
18 16 (2.19%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.66%) Cyberattack
2 36 (4.92%) Driving Licence
3 30 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.96%) Clustering
10 7 (0.96%) Digital TV
10 7 (0.96%) iPhone
11 6 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.82%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.68%) BBC
12 5 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.68%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 140 (19.15%) Windows
2 81 (11.08%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.46%) Linux
4 16 (2.19%) Android
5 14 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.78%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.27%) Unix
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (25.72%) Cybersecurity
2 173 (23.67%) AI
3 137 (18.74%) Agile
4 118 (16.14%) Mentoring
5 111 (15.18%) DevOps
6 106 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (10.67%) CI/CD
10 72 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (8.89%) Machine Learning
12 56 (7.66%) Ethical Hacking
13 46 (6.29%) Computer Science
13 46 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (5.88%) Roadmaps
15 41 (5.61%) ITIL
15 41 (5.61%) User Experience
16 39 (5.34%) Customer Service
17 36 (4.92%) Multithreading
18 35 (4.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 239 (32.69%) SQL
2 156 (21.34%) C#
3 132 (18.06%) Python
4 71 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 59 (8.07%) PowerShell
6 44 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.42%) PHP
8 15 (2.05%) Java
9 13 (1.78%) C++
10 10 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.82%) Bicep
12 5 (0.68%) R
13 4 (0.55%) Bash
14 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.41%) Ruby
14 3 (0.41%) Rust
15 2 (0.27%) Go
15 2 (0.27%) Scala
16 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 234 (32.01%) Azure Certification
2 80 (10.94%) Degree
3 60 (8.21%) CompTIA Security+
4 56 (7.66%) CEH
5 53 (7.25%) CompTIA CySA+
6 39 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.65%) CCNA
7 34 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (3.69%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (3.15%) Security Cleared
11 16 (2.19%) SC Cleared
12 8 (1.09%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.96%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.82%) CCNP
14 6 (0.82%) CISSP
15 5 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.41%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.10%) QA
2 25 (3.42%) SLA
3 21 (2.87%) GDPR
4 15 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.78%) NIST
7 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.23%) GRC
8 7 (0.96%) NCSC
9 6 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.55%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.55%) PMO
12 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.14%) IFRS
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 129 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 37 (5.06%) Hyper-V
3 30 (4.10%) Docker
4 27 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 59 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.15%) Terraform
4 8 (1.09%) Ansible
5 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.41%) SCCM
5 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 521 (71.27%) Microsoft
2 132 (18.06%) ForeScout
3 48 (6.57%) Cisco
4 32 (4.38%) VMware
5 29 (3.97%) Apple
6 24 (3.28%) Google
7 19 (2.60%) Adobe
8 15 (2.05%) Databricks
8 15 (2.05%) Meraki
9 12 (1.64%) Veeam
10 11 (1.50%) Facebook
10 11 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.96%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.96%) Sophos
13 6 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.82%) Dell
13 6 (0.82%) Epicor
13 6 (0.82%) SAP
13 6 (0.82%) SonicWALL